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Pamela Weaver

@pamelaweaver.bsky.social

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Writing for a living, mostly about tech. Historian in a previous life. Politics, history, bikes, books, cricket, gardening, dogs, music. SocDem. #FreeSafeLegal Ireland/France/South Africa 🇮🇪 🇿🇦 🇫🇷 Fair warning: expect photos of dogs, France & cake

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.bsky.social · 1d

Screen shot on a xitter exchange between tech bro Andrew Yeung and 'E. Rex Shin.' Yeung has posted: I just met a founder who told me she works 24 hours a day. I’m not joking.

She’s taught herself how to lucid dream so she can solve important work problems in her sleep.

It’s working though, she recently raised tens of millions of dollars and hired a few dozen people.

San Francisco is known for 996 but in New York we’re 24/7 ;)

E. Rex Shin replies: Do you people ever shut the fuck up?

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ApocalypseElf @apocalypseelf.bsky.social · 2d

Church sign "Satanic exorcism Wed. August 7. All the fried chicken you can eat for 50c"

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Maria Bustillos @handle.invalid · 2d

🔥 Here is why we need MORE academic historians and humanists. Dazzling, wildly relevant perspectives set forth with rigor and clarity for our terrible moment

thank you @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social

The Facsimile Debate brings together all the ingredients familiar to the controversies that emerge when new or markedly improved technologies infiltrate the arts and education: moral panic and appeals to tradition on the one side; pragmatism, populism, and optimism on the other; and a gamut of differences splitting the two.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3d

The soft opening for this was telling teachers to necromance chatbots out of Anne Frank. There’s a historical parallel to this I’ve been chewing on, a bit of gristle stuck in my teeth since I wrote this footnote about a public debate in Weimar Germany on the educative potential of replicas. 🧵

The use of copies to fill lacunae in collections was by no means always hitched to a progressive cause, as it was in this debate. For example, the Nazi-sponsored traveling exhibition Deutsche Größe of the early 1940s comprised replicas entirely. See Diebold
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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 2d

People of Cork! Anybody recognise Seamus D'Terrier ? He got lost during Storm Amy and now he needs a home

Dog that got lost on Cork's northside during Storm Amy looking for family

If the CSPCA can't find his family - they at least want Seamus to have a happy home

www.corkbeo.ie

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.bsky.social · 3d

Isn't it just?!

Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.bsky.social · 3d

"Dog"
Diego De La Rosa 2022.

From the artist's insta:

"Since its beginnings, the majority of the Venezuelan population has been living in extreme poverty. From a lack of care of the political class to ine ective economic models, the Venezuelans have been pushed to search for miraculous solutions found in religion and fortune based activities, in order to cope with their precarious reality.
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In this painting, De la Rosa explores how poverty has pushed Venezuelans to rely on mysticism and spirituality for their betterment. The painting portrays an impoverished scenery that is reminiscent of the poor communities that are found outside the main urban areas.
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The dog is modelled after a stray that both Diego and his wife adopted from the streets in Caracas. Its appearance is embellished by a halo surrounding its head, and an ornamental collar on its neck. Both items serve to imbue the character with a sense of goodness and dignity. The halo is reminiscent of images of saints, found in christianity, while the collar design is directly inspired by garments worn by the heroes of independence, such as Simon Bolivar and Francisco de Miranda.
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To illustrate the benevolence of the main character, the dog is accompanied by two items in front of its feet. A small bag of rice and mangos. While rice has become a product hard to acquire for many Venezuelans, mangos can be found growing on the trees on the street, and are an easy and accessible way of making ends for the hungry citizens. As such, the holy creature brings a humble bit of salvation to a community that has been abandoned by its leaders."
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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.bsky.social · 6d

"These books are medicinal!" 😅

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 7d

doomscroll break

Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.bsky.social · 6d

Screen shot of a typo in a post reading: Patient has an insulin pimp.
Some has shared this, saying: Pretty sure that's the opposite of a sugar daddy.
I have no idea who came up with this, but how could you not share.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you - I think you told me about this before, my vet doesn't seem to realise it's an option, but will ask again now!

Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.bsky.social · 7d

Oh god, just fuck off already.

CNN @cnn.com · 8d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 7d

The Seven-armed octopus (Haliphron atlanticus) is a large octopus species, that as its name suggests, has eight arms!

The reason it gets its name is that males have their hectocotylus (a specialized arm used for mating) curled up in a pouch, making it look like they only have seven arms

#OCTOtober

A seven-armed octopus (Haliphron atlanticus) swimming in ocean. Its arms are held together, with two arms extended a bit further, so it looks like a big pink blob.

A seven-armed octopus (Haliphron atlanticus) swimming in a kelp forest. It looks like an orangish gelatinous blob with arms.

A view of a seven-armed octopus's (Haliphron atlanticus) mouth. Its arms are spread out, showing the messy row of suckers and webbing. You can see the octopus's eight arms. The octopus is orange with white suckers. It is swimming in a kelp forest.

A seven-armed octopus (Haliphron atlanticus) swimming towards the camera while extending its arms. Webbing is between its arms and the tips of the arms are curled outwards. The rest of the octopus is gelatinous. It is pink.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.bsky.social · 7d

The dog that will eat cat shit rejects Bravecto in steak.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.bsky.social · 8d

You'd wonder all right!

Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.bsky.social · 8d

They have Mateus Rose in the British section of my local Leclerc 😆

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.bsky.social · 8d

Baby girl 🐶

Close-up photo of my very small terrier girl. She is black, brown and (increasingly) white. She has the most excellent eyebrows. And nose. She is not even one bit spoiled.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 8d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.bsky.social · 9d

The way things are going, Macron will appoint Le Pen rather than anyone from the Nupes.

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Dunkin’ Cruller Carl @keithdecent.bsky.social · 11d

It’s interesting watching the World of Men scramble trying to figure out how to sexually harass thin air

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 12d

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human
Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.

A picture of some AI girl standing on an AI landscape with an AI monster behind her. I'm gonna be so real: she looks about 14

By Tyler Cowen

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.bsky.social · 12d

I suppose we should be greateful they went the Blair-Obama knuckle pointer route than the Tory power stance one.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 12d

7 years ago Tim Cook told the European Parliament:

“We're responsible for recognizing that the devices we make and platforms we build have real…lasting…even permanent effects on individuals and communities who use them

We must never stop asking ourselves What kind of world do we want to live in?"

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Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · 12d

We are delighted to have another book review up online this evening. Thanks to @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social for taking the time to review it for us.

womenshistoryassociation.com/book-reviews...

Margaret Ward Rebel Women. Cumann na mBan in Belfast and the Glens of Antrim, 1914-1924, Beyond the Pale Books, Belfast, 2024

Frances ‘Frank’ Brady is one of the few members of Cumann na mBan who went on hunger strike during the War of Independence, and more unusually, for whom a photograph exists of her in bed, in jail, …

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 13d

Leave aside the Connolly campaign. Consider all the people who go through garda vetting. That is a significant bloc of the population- volunteer parents helping kids in sports, at scouts, in charities.

Will that police data leak if the Gardaí want to intervene in a political campaign in the future?

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.bsky.social · 14d

You have to admire the convenience of being able to told the tap and have your other hand in the water once you've dropped the toaster in the sink.

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